Communication yesterday included:
∙ exchanged hubski pms with flagamuffin
∙ mobile phone text with the ex and blackbootz and bf
∙ Skype text with sister who has no mobile phone or camera on her computer
∙ a couple of live phone calls in real time
∙ live Skype conversation with video
∙ email with various family, friend, and work-related people
∙ facebook message with friend who mainly uses fb messages to communicate
∙ linkedin messaging with another friend, not sure why she messages me that way
∙ have to remember to check two other email addresses
∙ and my daughter sends me messages via FaceBook Scrabble
Note: only two of the communications yesterday were with people in this city.
I somehow think my life is SIMPLER than most people who are also getting WhatsApp and who knows what else.
I even got a postcard in the Snail Mail yesterday. (YAY!)
Has anybody simplified their life so that they only get one thing? How's it working for you?
Wow... interesting question! Lemme see... • SMS • Personal Email (account 1) • Personal Email (account 2) • Craigslist (email response, using CL's email shrouding function) • Chat function in "Words With Friends" game app • Chat function in "Pokerist" game app • Work email 1 • Work email 2 • Slack (for work) • Hubski • Reddit • Facebook • online motorcyclist forum • Comments in a GoogleDoc being edited simultaneously by 3 people • Cell phone call • Cell phone voicemail • Face to Face (work, home, motorcycle buyer, mail man) I think that might be it.
Fortunately the Mac is VERY good at finding things. So if I do get confused, I simply type Command-Space Bar, and type in what I am looking for. The Mac then leads me right to it, even if it is buried in a PDF file 15 folders deep... But generally, each of those communication media are used for different purposes. So I don't tend to get confused.
- Some intercom thing that told me when it was time to go up to the teller at the auditors office - A menu at a brewery that helped select items on a menu - Card reader to let my bank know I spent money on a suade jacket from Goodwill
Texted Called Snapchatted images Snapchatted messages Hubski commented IRC'd (hubski and #berlin) Read a book Read an article Emailed Played a song for someone Showed someone a meme Hugged someone Smiled at someone Posted on Facebook Favorited some Tweets Commented in a Google doc
I'm crushed because I wrote a post this morning and thought it posted but it didn't! I'm going to limit myself to listing technologically-aided channels of communication because there are innumerable methods of communicating in meatspace (I've kissed someone in the last day, put my hand on someone's back as I passed behind them, shouted, winked, etc. and all communicate in different ways I'd argue). This weekend I've: texted; messaged on Tinder, Facebook, Hubski; AirBnb messaging while managing Papa's AirBnb; sent food orders to the cooks upstairs in the kitchen using the food ordering computer system; and emailed Papa while he was in Kazakhstan for a day. Each method has its constraints. I think it's interesting that most email clients let you mark messages as unread so as to indicate to yourself that an item requires further action, yet text messaging software generally doesn't. That's a conscious design choice. Phone calls are great for coordinating certain plan-making, but sometimes a text message is sufficient.
- Hubski comment - WhatsApp message to my sister - Facebook chat to various people - Discord chat to some people from the Internet - Phone call to some people when I was going out (Soho was so busy for Halloween!) - I hardly ever use a telephone like this - Real life verbal communication - Slack chat with my co-workers to discuss work stuff The thing I find is that I have a lot of services that provide the same thing (instant messaging) but I use them to talk to different people. It just happens that certain people I know have adopted one medium and certain others have adopted another. The other forms of communication I have listed here can't really be replaced with each other.
_refugee_ - I think I'm close to that. - Posts on Hubski (if that counts). - Email exchange with Real Analysis TA. - I was supposed to talk on Skype with my family (they are all still in Germany because of my brother), but for last few days they had some difficulties with being online. So that was planned but didn't occur. And… that's it. In my defence, I don't really have 'a life' so it's not really hard for me to keep to one or two means of communication. :P
- Hubski post - Facebook messenger (friends) - Call with a real person (business) - Call with a robotic phone tree (business, what else) - In person conversation (wow!) - SMS (friends) - one-way snapchat (receive only) - WhatsApp (family) - Email to myself - Email to a printer - Email to other people - Slack (club) has this deluge of communication methods more talkative, or seemingly more talkative? I bet I'd call people more often if that was the only way...
I don't have a single thing I use to communicate everything on a daily basis. WhatsApp is pretty close to that though. I get over 100 messages per day on average and send around 30. Which is low compared to some of my friends - one girl I know has ten times those numbers. Besides that I pretty much only use mail, hubski and Steam chat on a daily basis. I only call for work related things and I never text.
I send silly-ass stickers to my Sister on Line Then I send silly-ass stickers mixed with GameDev talk to my partner Rest is trolling the RPGFan team on slack (final fantasy 7 is bad, trails of cold steel is worse, the only good burger is well done, etc.)
I recently made my life less simple by adding a satellite communicator to my repertoire of communication means. Ostensibly it's for remote, solo hiking safety. But there's definitely an element of showing off. But people genuinely die in the backcountry, and I intend to not die there. In addition to the usual communication means, I sent a satellite test message last night. I didn't bother checking my mail yesterday; my next Amazon package isn't due until tomorrow. What's WhatsApp?
An app that let's you call and chat with everyone as long as you have internet, for free.
Facebook Messenger, SMS, Snapchat, Email, Dating app.
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't one person on Hubski who's so simplified that they only get one thing. I bet that the nature of the average Hubski user is one attuned to the internet, social media, and virtual interconnectedness... If Hubski in and of itself counts as a channel (and it should) - well, I just doubt anyone internet-savvy enough to be on Hubski would have simplified enough that Hubski is the only regular way they communicate with others. I mean, you've all got email, right? And phones and text messages? I can't imagine being much less hyper-connected than I am now. I use all these methods!! :)
If we don't count this comment, all I've done is face to face talking for the past 24 hours. I use irc and hubski several times a week. Texting a few times a month. Facebook posts less frequently than that, and email again so. I used to snap chat a few times a week, but then I got out of the habit of keeping the phone charged up for it.
I won't text you to say "hey" but I'm tempted. I wonder if there's a hierarchy of connection. For example, there are some people who I avoid any live, real-time converso. I'll just let some voices go to message, thank you. Thank you messaging, thank you surreal time. Me and maybe one other person here remembers when answering machines appeared in the 1980s. Imagine how exciting it might be to come home and check your messages!! Of course, now I try not to leave the house - oh, except now. Have a f-2-f with a human in a bank.